{"slug":"revenue-critical-journey-integrity-review","title":"revenue-critical-journey-integrity-review","summary":"Use this skill to review the cross-tier seams of revenue-critical journeys — checkout, payment submission, account creation, and login — for idempotency of money-moving and account-creating requests, server-side re-validation of client-enforced rules, webhook duplicate/out-of-ord","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:02.526694Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: revenue-critical-journey-integrity-review\ndescription: Use this skill to review the cross-tier seams of revenue-critical journeys — checkout, payment submission, account creation, and login — for idempotency of money-moving and account-creating requests, server-side re-validation of client-enforced rules, webhook duplicate/out-of-order handling, retry-storm safeguards, and PCI DSS SAQ-scope judgment. Use when a request crosses client-to-server, system-to-processor, or webhook-back-into-system and a failure at that seam would double-charge, double-fulfill, bypass a required step, drop revenue, or misjudge PCI scope. Static review only; it does not execute payment flows and its PCI SAQ output is an advisory scoping opinion, never a compliance attestation.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-16\"\ncategory: resilience\nlifecycle: experimental</h2>\n<h1>Revenue-Critical Journey Integrity Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Review the seams of revenue-critical journeys — the points where a request crosses from client to server, from your system to a payment processor, or from a webhook back into your system — so a journey that looks correct in any one tier does not break where the tiers meet. The dominant seam failures are non-idempotent money-moving requests, client-enforced rules the server never re-validates, webhook consumers that assume exactly-once/in-order delivery, unbounded retries that become retry storms, and PCI DSS SAQ-scope misjudgment.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review whether a checkout, payment, subscription, coupon, or account-creation request is safe to retry (idempotency at money-moving seams),</li>\n<li>confirm the server re-validates rules the client enforces (price, discount, quantity, eligibility, step-completion),</li>\n<li>review a webhook consumer for duplicate-delivery and out-of-order handling,</li>\n<li>review retry/backoff/circuit-breaker safety at a revenue-critical seam across web, mobile, or backend consumers,</li>\n<li>get an advisory PCI DSS SAQ-scope opinion for the payment integration model actually in the code.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When not to use</h2>\n<p>Do not use this skill for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>tier-internal review that an owning specialist owns — DOM XSS/CSP and client injection (use the frontend security review), backend authorization-model design, mobile-platform specifics, or infrastructure hardening. This skill reviews the seam, not the interior; hand tier-internal findings to the owning agent.</li>\n<li>issuing a PCI compliance attestation, signing an SAQ, or acting as an assessment of record. SAQ-scope output here is advisory only.</li>\n<li>any live exercise of a payment system — executing flows, replaying webhooks, or sending requests to live/sandbox/staging processors. This skill is static review only.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Preconditions</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The money-moving and account-creating request paths in scope, across whichever tiers exist.</li>\n<li>The webhook consumer code and the event types it acts on.</li>\n<li>The retry configuration (max attempts, backoff, jitter, timeout, circuit breaker) for the seams in scope.</li>\n<li>The payment integration model (redirect, iframe/hosted fields, direct post/custom form) if a SAQ-scope opinion is requested.</li>\n<li>The processor/SDK and version in scope, so idempotency and webhook guidance matches the real API surface.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Confirm retry/replay reachability before flagging an idempotency gap; a genuinely non-retryable internal call is not a finding.</li>\n<li>Treat the server as the only enforcement boundary; a client-only check is UX, not enforcement.</li>\n<li>Require webhook consumers to be both idempotent (dedupe by event id or business key) and order-tolerant.</li>\n<li>Require bounded, backoff-with-jitter retries with a timeout at every revenue seam; add a circuit breaker or dead-letter path for backend/queue consumers.</li>\n<li>Give a PCI SAQ-scope opinion only against the integration model present in the code, name the candidate SAQ, and label it advisory.</li>\n<li>Never request, echo, store, or reproduce cardholder data, API keys, session tokens, or webhook signing secrets; redact-and-flag any that appear.</li>\n<li>Label every claim <code>repo evidence</code>, <code>context7-grounded</code>, <code>documentation-based</code>, or <code>inference</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 documentation protocol</h2>\n<p>Processor idempotency semantics, webhook retry windows, event ordering, and signature verification are version-sensitive. The bundled <a href=\"references/official-sources.md\">official sources</a> are the versioned ground truth for this skill: every processor-specific claim must trace to them and is labeled <code>documentation-based</code>, and the ledger records the version and last-verified date so a claim can be re-checked. This static-review skill's own tool grant is read-only (<code>Read Grep Glob</code>); when the invoking harness additionally provides Context7 or official-documentation tools, use them to confirm the current behavior against the bundled snapshot (<code>resolve-library-id</code> then <code>query-docs</code>, labeled <code>context7-grounded</code>) and to cover a processor the bundle does not. For a processor with no bundled or fetched coverage, say so and treat the claim as <code>inference</code> — never rely on memorized API details.</p>\n<h2>Workflow</h2>\n<p>Follow the step-by-step review and output contract in <a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">workflow and output</a>. At a high level: (1) map the seams in scope; (2) for each money-moving/account-creating request, check idempotency against reachable retry/replay; (3) check server re-validation of every client-enforced rule; (4) check webhook consumers for idempotency + order-tolerance; (5) check retry safety; (6) if requested, form the advisory SAQ-scope opinion; (7) emit findings with evidence tiers and tier-internal handoffs.</p>\n<h2>Decision gates</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Block only on a seam failure with a demonstrated reachable retry/replay/bypass path.</li>\n<li>Every processor-specific claim is Context7-grounded or documentation-based, never memory.</li>\n<li>Every SAQ-scope statement is advisory and tied to the integration model in the code.</li>\n<li>Every tier-internal finding is handed off, not adjudicated.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Evidence classification</h2>\n<p>Label each finding <code>repo evidence</code> (seen in the code), <code>context7-grounded</code> (current provider docs via Context7), <code>documentation-based</code> (official docs), or <code>inference</code>. Documentation never proves a specific deployment's live behavior — say so.</p>\n<h2>Security and privacy constraints</h2>\n<p>Static review only. Never transmit, request, store, or reproduce cardholder data (PAN/CVV), API keys, session tokens, or webhook signing secrets; treat any such string as a redact-and-flag finding. Never execute payment flows or contact any live/sandbox/staging payment system. PCI SAQ-scope output is an advisory opinion, never an attestation.</p>\n<h2>Escalation conditions</h2>\n<p>Escalate to incident response on any evidence of a live failure (duplicate charges in logs, replayed webhooks, retry amplification). Escalate SAQ-scope opinions to the merchant's compliance owner or a QSA as advisory input.</p>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Workflow and output</a> — the end-to-end review steps and the finding/output contract.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/idempotency-and-safe-retries.md\">Idempotency and safe retries</a> — idempotency keys at money-moving seams and bounded backoff-with-jitter retry design.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/webhook-delivery-dedup-ordering.md\">Webhook delivery: dedup and ordering</a> — duplicate-delivery and out-of-order handling for webhook consumers.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/server-side-revalidation-trust-boundary.md\">Server-side re-validation and the client trust boundary</a> — why the server is the only enforcement boundary and what to re-check.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/pci-saq-scope-boundaries.md\">PCI DSS SAQ scope boundaries</a> — SAQ A vs A-EP vs D by integration model and the 6.4.3/11.6.1 payment-page expectations.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/official-sources.md\">Official sources</a> — the primary-source ledger for every claim in this skill.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the seam(s) in scope and, per finding, the failure class and evidence tier;</li>\n<li>the cross-tier failure narrative (how a retry, replay, or bypass reaches a wrong outcome);</li>\n<li>concrete remediation and an exact verification step;</li>\n<li>the advisory SAQ-scope opinion when requested, labeled advisory;</li>\n<li>tier-internal handoffs and any incident-response escalation.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Anti-goals</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not expand into tier-internal review; own the seam, hand off the interior.</li>\n<li>Do not present a SAQ-scope opinion as a compliance determination.</li>\n<li>Do not exercise any live payment system or reproduce any secret or PAN.</li>\n<li>Do not assert processor behavior from memory.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1948,"isText":true},{"path":"references/idempotency-and-safe-retries.md","sizeBytes":8792,"isText":true},{"path":"references/official-sources.md","sizeBytes":9440,"isText":true},{"path":"references/pci-saq-scope-boundaries.md","sizeBytes":7386,"isText":true},{"path":"references/server-side-revalidation-trust-boundary.md","sizeBytes":7285,"isText":true},{"path":"references/webhook-delivery-dedup-ordering.md","sizeBytes":8085,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":5892,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":8620,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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